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2008
2008x1
One Click from Danger
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An update to our film 'One Click from Danger' about internet paedophiles exploiting vulnerable youngsters online.
2008x2
Destination UK
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Panorama's Paul Kenyon follows one of the most dangerous illegal immigration routes into Europe. A route used by thousands of migrants seeking a better life.
2008x3
Britain's Protection Racket
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Panorama goes undercover in Britain's security industry and discovers criminals continue to operate in the business.
2008x4
Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia
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Alex James confessed to spending a million pounds on champagne and cocaine in his Blur years. He travels to Colombia to see the damage caused by the drug.
2008x5
Bursting the House Price Bubble
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Panorama discovers how the buy-to-let dream for some investors has turned into a nightmare.
2008x6
No More Mandelas
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Fergal Keane witnessed the end of apartheid. He returns to South Africa for Panorama, to find out what happened to the hope from that time.
2008x7
Bottled Water: Who Needs It?
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Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is a triumph of marketing over common sense.
2008x8
On Whose Orders?
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Panorama investigates allegations of abuse by the British Army against former Iraqi prisoners who are now claiming compensation.
2008x9
Taking Back the Streets
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Richard Bilton looks at the dilemma of whether to tackle vandals and teenage gangs or to surrender the streets and thus create more victims.
2008x10
Shaken Babies
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Panorama's John Sweeney investigates the row behind Shaken Baby Syndrome following the conviction of childminder Keran Henderson.
2008x11
Teenage Sex for Sale
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Girls as young as 12 are being sold for sex by organised gangs on the streets of Britain, Gerry Northam investigates for Panorama.
2008x12
Jersey: Island of Secrets
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As police continue their investigations into allegations of abuse at Haute de la Garenne, Panorama looks at claims of abuse at a second home.
2008x13
Divide and Rule
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Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Declan Lawn returns to Northern Ireland to see how far lives have changed.
2008x14
Feeling the Pinch
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BBC Business presenter Declan Curry asks if Britain has what it takes to weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.
2008x15
Something in the Air
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Can polluted air on board planes damage your health? Panorama carries out its own tests to discover just what's in the air we breathe when we fly.
2008x16
How Clean is Your Hospital?
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The superbug c.difficile is rife in our hospitals. Sally Magnusson reveals how sloppy hygiene, understaffing and overcrowded wards contributed to its spread.
2008x17
Mission Impossible
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Panorama talks to ex-militia leaders accused of murdering men, women and children. They now face war crimes charges.
2008x18
Prisons Unlocked
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Panorama investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.
2008x19
Tested to Destruction
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Are schoolchildren in England given too many exams? Vivian White reports.
2008x20
The Challenge of the 60s
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Experts and diplomats including Lord Hurd, Christopher Mallaby and Bernard Lovell assess the predictions made about the world's future in an edition of Panorama from 1960.
2008x21
Britain on the Sick
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Shelley Jofre examines the Government's tough new benefit rules.
2008x22
One Click from Capture
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A look at how Panorama's simple experiment of putting a young girl's details onto social networking websites ended with the arrest of an online predator.
2008x23
The Property Game
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Vigorous investigation of a topical issue. Richard Bilton meets the winners and losers in the property market. Is the British love affair with home ownership over?
2008x24
What Happened After Taking On the Taliban?
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Panorama meets the soldiers featured in last year's Taking On the Taliban special, to find out what they're doing now.
2008x25
Daylight Robbery: What happened to the $23 billion?
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Jane Corbin investigates the cases which threaten to reveal the corruption behind the past five years of war in the Middle East.
2008x26
Young Gunmen
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Panorama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in parts of Britain. The programme sees how .. show full overview
2008x26
Primark: On the Rack
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Panorama puts Primark's claims that it can deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test.
2008x28
Taking Back The Streets
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Panarama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in Britain.
2008x29
NHS for Sale
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Sally Magnusson investigates the creeping privatisation of the NHS.
2008x30
China's Secret War
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Panorama provides evidence of how China is supplying the Sudanese government with arms to enable it to wage a campaign of violence in Darfur - all for oil.
2008x31
Friends in High Places
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Panorama investigates the government's proposals for a third runway at Heathrow which, critics argue, will have a dramatic effect on the environment.
2008x32
Can We Afford to Fill Up?
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With the price of fuel rocketing at the pumps, Jane Corbin reports on how fuel prices are affecting Britain and what alternatives might be available.
2008x33
Racing's Dirty Secret
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Panorama investigates horse racing and reveals why those running the sport are so concerned about gamblers betting on horses not to win, but to lose.
2008x34
China's Olympic Promise
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As the Games approach, award-winning journalist John Sweeney travels across China to discover whether foreign journalists are being allowed to report freely.
2008x35
Notes on a Dirty Island
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Travel writer Bill Bryson presents a personal and passionate account of how Britain has become a rubbish tip since his arrival from the USA in 1972.
2008x36
The NHS Postcode Lottery: It Could Be You
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Shelley Jofre takes a road trip around the UK and discovers how the quality of treatment from the NHS very much depends on where you live.
2008x37
True Brits
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An investigation into how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are forever changing the concept of 'Britishness'.
2008x38
How the Economy Got Personal
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Jeremy Vine presents personal stories of regular Britons affected by the credit crunch.
2008x39
Can Money Grow on Trees?
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Panorama asks whether the money markets can achieve what campaigners and law enforcement have so far failed to, and make trees more valuable alive than dead.
2008x40
Terror in the Skies?
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Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.
2008x41
Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told
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Panorama reveals the secret intelligence which was withheld from the detectives when 29 people and two unborn babies were murdered in Omagh.
2008x42
How Safe is my Money?
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Jane Corbin looks at how the crisis facing the world's financial insitutions could impact on the nation's banks, mortgages, insurance and pensions.
2008x43
You Can Run...
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But can you hide? Simon Boazman investigates how much information is held on him, whether it is secure and if he can reduce his data trail.
2008x44
Next Stop, Downing Street?
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Nick Robinson accompanies Conservative Party leader David Cameron to Birmingham as he attempts to persuade voters he is prime minister material.
2008x45
The Secret Policeman Returns
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In the wake of the resignation of Britain's top police officer, Panorama investigates racism in Britain's police force. Mark Daly - who exposed racism amongst police recruits in The .. show full overview
2008x46
Should We Be Scared of Russia?
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Mark Franchetti meets Vladimir Putin's inner circle in an attempt to decipher Russia's intentions on domestic and international fronts.
2008x47
Obama and the Pitbull: An American Tale
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Matt Frei investigates Barack Obama's rise in the opinion polls, and asks if the current financial crisis has put him on the home straight.
2008x48
Britain in the Red - Your Questions Answered
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Jeremy Vine asks why our economy ran into trouble, and who is to blame for the credit crunch and banking crisis which threatens to affect us all.
2008x49
You Can Run...
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Simon Boazman investigates how much information is held on him, whether its secure and if he can reduce his data trail. He crosses the UK to discover on the way how his mobile phone, .. show full overview
2008x49
Three Bloody Summers
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The British Commander on the ground admits the war against the Taliban cannot be won by force alone in this eye-opening assessment of the Afghanistan conflict.
2008x50
Can't Pay, Won't Pay
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With the credit crunch affecting everyone, Panorama reveals the lengths some lenders are now going to in order to get borrowers to pay off their debts.
2008x51
What Happened to Baby P?
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A six-month investigation by the programme reveals the mistakes and missed opportunities that led to the death of a 17-month-old boy known only as Baby P.
2008x52
Addicted to Aid
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Reporter Sorious Samura visits Uganda and his home country of Sierra Leone to reveal how aid money is lost, stolen and frittered away.
2008x53
Comeback Coal
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An investigation into the Government's support of a new wave of opencast coal mining, in spite of fierce opposition from local communities.
2008x54
Shannon: The Mother of All Lies
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Panorama presents the inside story on the disappearance of Shannon Matthews, as it investigates the events that led to Karen Matthews being convicted for the kidnap of her own daughter.
2008x55
I'll Die When I Choose
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Politician and Parkinson's sufferer Margo MacDonald uncovers the truth about assisted dying, meeting those with illnesses like hers who are desperate to die.
2008x56
Britain's Terror Heartland
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Jane Corbin makes the hazardous journey to the frontline in the War on Terror, the remote and forbidding mountains along the Pakistan-Afghan border.
2008x57
The Year Britain's Bubble Burst
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It has been a cataclysmic year for our banks and economy, and a year in which the role of the BBC's Business Editor has been in the spotlight as never before. With exclusive .. show full overview

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